Those are slaves that heap up mountains (James Corfe)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-04-19).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 116 kB   Copyright: Personal
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Title: Those are slaves that heap up mountains
Composer: James Corfe
Lyricist: Thomas Randolph
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: TTB

Genre: SecularGlee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: .1745 in A Collection of songs
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Original text and translations

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Those are slaves that heap up mountains,
Still desiring more and more;
Then let us carouse in Bacchus' fountains,
Never dreaming to be poor.
Give us then a cup of liquor,
Fill it up unto the brim;
For then methinks my wits grow quicker
When my brains in claret swim.